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From: Dean S. Messing on 15 Feb 2007 23:50
Thanks Vladimir, for more helpful answers. The ATI card that comes
with display was (according to the Toshiba salesman) specially built
for this device. The PDF I have has a photograph of the PCI-Express
card. The date on the circuit board appears to be Nov. 2006.
That's probably why I'm not find it as a product on the web.

I have no idea at this point if the ordinary ATI driver will drive the
thing.

The Toshiba salesman claims that SGI has sucessfully run the device
"under linux" so evidently it's possible.

Dean
From: Dean S. Messing on 15 Feb 2007 23:52
Steve Wampler wrote:
: Dean S. Messing wrote:
: > The display will come with an ATI card and is supposed to work fine
: > under a MS Windows system. I have no idea if linux can drive the ATI
: > card that comes with it. (I have heard that Nvidia generally plays
: > better with Linux and have, myself, always used Nvidia cards.
:
: Their product literature claims that an Nvidia EN7900GTX or 7800GTX
: card will drive the display to full resolution.

How did I miss this?
From: Dean S. Messing on 15 Feb 2007 23:54

John-Paul Stewart wrote:
: Dean Messing wrote:
: > Can you write a few words about how one configures the closed
: > source driver to drive the display? I've never used
: > ATI before. With Nvidia, there's TwinView. Is there
: > something equivalent for ATI?
:
: When you first install the ATI driver (or anytime thereafter, by using
: the 'aticonfig' utility) you can specify whether you're using one
: monitor or two (with several options for the behaviour of the two
: monitors). This should all be covered in ATI's documentation.
:
: You can, of course, also directly xorg.conf to achieve the same result.

Thanks John-Paul.
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